Category Archives: Problem Solutions

This is the follow up post to my last post describing Siebel 8.1.1.4 patch hyperlink issue. In this post I want to highlight another product defect found in 8.1.1.4 and also solution to limitation of “correct record context not being passed to external application” described in my last post.Continue Reading

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We moved to patch 8.1.1.4 in order to address few product defects but ended up with another product defect that caused error for the fields used as external application links. Let me explain the functionality first Requirement: A field on applet should display as hyperlink. When clicked a new browser window with external URL should… Continue Reading

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This seems like a pretty simple and common requirement but the truth is, it is a common requirement but it is simple only if you know the solution. Requirement: You have a Start date and an End date. You need to find number of months between the two dates. Continue Reading

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Task Based UI was one of the most hyped feature of Siebel 8.0. It was one of the main reason for customers to move to Siebel 8.0 apart from the Fusion road map laid by Oracle. TBUI turned out to be the worst implemented feature of Siebel 8.0. Even a simple TBUI would land you… Continue Reading

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Problem: I was trying to create a Pre Defined Query (PDQ) for an application user. Once the PDQ was ready the user asked to apply sorting on created date to the result. I added the sort criteria and ran the PDQ but to my utter surprise the result was not sorted. I tried doing all… Continue Reading

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The tip I am sharing in this post is very trivial but might save somebody hours of boring manual job. This will come handy especially for people who work in support projects and need to query often at database or application from the information provided in excel sheet. Continue Reading

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Gururaj Basavaraj a Siebel Unleashed reader shared a very useful tip for very commonly faced problem. Problem: Whenever the user queries on the MVF Field on list applet and try to export the result records. The Siebel instance used to hang or it was taking too long time to export the records. Continue Reading

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This post is about another performance issue I worked upon recently. A particular transaction (button click) was taking around 15-20 seconds to complete and I was asked to see if there is any scope of improvement and try to gain at least 5 seconds from it. As I had mentioned when it comes to performance… Continue Reading